Bruce Castor Right To Work

Montgomery County Commissioner Bruce Castor, who some are touting to take on Gov. Corbett in the 2014 GOP primary, has penned support for right to work. Bruce Castor Right To Work

Right to work means unions can’t make an employer deduct union dues or service fees from an employee’s check. The money to pay for the salaries of union leaders must be given voluntarily without compulsion. It’s about time a Republican came out in support of the worker and against special interests.

Thank you, Bruce.

Below is the letter:

By his recent signing of legislation making Michigan the 24th state to prohibit unions from forcing workers to join and pay dues, Rick Snyder joined Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as a beacon of leadership.

The measure approved by Gov. Snyder, known as Right to Work, will give the Wolverine State a much-needed economic boost. The premise is simple: giving workers freedom makes them more prosperous. Research by the Commonwealth Foundation shows that Right-to-Work states, on average, have higher employment and per-capita income (adjusting for cost of living) than forced unionism states.

Another key component of worker freedom is paycheck protection, which protects public sector union members from having dues automatically deducted from their paychecks. It also prevents their dues money from being used for political purposes without their consent. Paycheck protection holds public sector unions fully accountable to their members, which ensures they get the greatest amount of take-home pay possible while getting the level of representation they want.

With Pennsylvania’s economy and personal income growth lagging, it’s time to give our workers the freedom they want and deserve to prosper. It’s mind-boggling that we are still a forced unionism state when nearly three-fourths (72 percent) of our residents favor right-to-work legislation, according to a 2011 survey by the Manhattan Institute.

All that is needed to give our workers freedom and more prosperity is the kind of leadership and courage that has been shown in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Bruce Castor Right To Work

When Fools Mock The Truth Teller

Wayne Lapierre of the National Rifle Association got grief  from the “I Think I’m Smart Crowd” when he reiterated Bill Clinton’s idea of having armed guards in public schools as a more effective means of making them safe than gun bans.

The Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. where President Obama’s daughters go has 11 armed guards as standard operating procedure, Brietbart.com has revealed. In other words, this does not include the Secret Service protection the Obama girls get.

Note Sidwell is a Quaker school.

In other ironic gun-grabbing news,  David Gregory of NBC, who was complaining of too few gun laws is facing charges after waving around a 30-round magazine to demonstrate his point on last week’s Meet the Press. The possession of the magazine is illegal in Washington D.C. where the show is produced.

What parents have to come to understand is that their children are going to be most safe and best treated in schools that they can fire.

Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr


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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
Ada Levenson

Dem Candidates, Officials And Vote Fraud Charges

Chalk this one in the stories you won’t see in the Philadelphia Inquirer category.

Maryland Democrat congressional candidate Wendy Rosen is facing up to 10 years in prison for voting in 2006 and 2010 in Maryland despite being a resident of Florida.  She withdrew from this year’s 1st District race against incumbent Andy Harris after the charges became public. She still got 92,000 votes. There are a whole lot of people in this country who really don’t care in the rule of law it seems.

Massachusetts state Rep. Stephen Smith, a Democrat, has pleaded guilty to vote fraud for his role in submitting absentee ballot applications and casting invalid ballots in multiple elections in 2009 and 2010 in elections that he won. Smith will escape jail time in return for the guilty plea, resigning from his office and agreeing not to seek elected office for five years.

In New Jersey, campaign worker John Fernandez is getting five years for filling out absentee ballots in other persons’ names without their knowledge for the 2007 New Jersey Senate campaign of Teresa Ruiz.

Filling out absentee ballots in other persons’ names without their knowledge is how the Democrat establishment won a 2009 election in Troy, N.Y. Apparently it was recognized as the normal course of business up there.

Does this sort of thing happen in Pennsylvania? In Philadelphia? Ho ho ho, as Santa would say.

In the last election, Democrats refused to seat  court-appointed Republican poll watchers at 43 sites in the city as the Dems followed their tradition of appointing their own poll watchers.  How did the Inquirer treat this bit of news? They noted it on the fourth page of a long piece about how a mean judge rejected a request to give the Democrat Party more provisional ballots in the city where several wards went 100 percent for Obama.

Yes, Republicans have good reason to be suspicious about the results of the last election.

If you don’t think it’s happening ask yourself why the Democrats fought so hard to keep photo voter ID from taking effect.

Here’s the report from Fox News about the recent vote fraud cases.

529 Contribution Deadline Is Dec. 31 For Free Enrollment

Contributions made by Dec. 31 to the Pennsylvania 529 College Savings Program can help reduce the tax burden on returns filed next spring, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). Taxpayers can deduct up to $13,000 per beneficiary in PA 529 contributions from Pennsylvania taxable income on state returns for 2012. Married couples filing jointly can deduct up to $26,000 per beneficiary, if each spouse has taxable income of at least the amount deducted. Additionally, family and friends can contribute up to $65,000 in a single year ($130,000 for a married couple filing jointly) for each beneficiary without incurring federal gift tax consequences. 
Earnings in a 529 plan are not subject to yearly taxes as they grow, and when used for qualified higher education expenses, earnings are tax-exempt upon withdrawal. 
To encourage more families to enroll in a program, free enrollment, a $50 savings, is available for all new PA 529 Guaranteed Savings Plan (GSP) accounts opened by Dec. 31 at the 529 website. Use the code TAXSMART when prompted. 

The Republican Veto

By Bob Guzzardi
This is what we are up against: a President willing to create an economic crisis to impose Socialism and to transform American government forever.
The House Republicans, elected in 2010, by the Tea Party movement, gave the House Republicans a commanding majority and the power to checkmate the President’s moves.   That veto power was, again, given to House Republicans by American Voters on 6 November 2012 as they were shellacked at the Presidential and Senatorial contests.  Elections have consequences.
 It is time for House Republicans to remember that there are three co-equal branches of government and that the House of Representatives has primary responsibility for the spending, debt, deficit and taxation. The House Rs have the power; use it  … for the good of America’s productive and very Forgotten Taxpayer and, even more importantly, to halt the President’s plan to replace American Constitutional Exceptionalism with European Welfare State Socialism
Ahead of the Curve: The Debt Ceiling Vote –
To continue operating, the government must borrow. The House Republicans have the power to block more borrowing. If not now, then when. Spending and borrowing won’t cure themselves and they are not getting better.
 
The Federal Government spends $2.4 more a year than its tax revenue. “Mandatory” and perennial Entitlements, Social Security, Medicare and Medicare plus debt service spending cause an annual deficit of $250 billion, that is, automatic spending swamps tax revenues before any spending for defense which, as you may recall, is the reason we have a federal government, not for wealth redistribution, corporate welfare, farm welfare, or a centralized, command and control of the economy , the Statist military model of an economy, or a banking cartel of currency and credit, the statutorily created Federal Reserve bank monopoly.
The Rs caved on Debt Ceiling and cooperated with the Democrats and the President and we got the biggest tax Increases increase in American history and indiscriminate spending cuts threatening national defense. The President and the Democrats are intransigent and for a reason, because it advances their transformation of our way of governance.
At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, “I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. What do I get for that?”
“You get nothing,” the president said. “I get that for free.”  

Bill Would Up Right Of Cancellation To 15 Days

Legislation will be reintroduced in the new session to give senior citizens additional time to rescind purchases made as a result of a home or phone solicitation, reports stat Rep. Jim Cox (R-129). 
The bill would increase the current three-day, right-of-cancellation period to 15 days for the purchase of goods and services by a person who is age 65 or older if the purchase is in excess of $25 and is the result of a door-to-door or telephone home solicitation. According to an AARP study, more than 50 percent of telemarketing scam victims are over the age of 50. 
For senior fraud prevention tips, visit the “Seniors” section at the attorney general’s website, www.AttorneyGeneral.gov.

Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

Buslzz dl thrl Joypzathz hu vjjhzpvu av zohyl vby islzzpunz, hss aol zuvd pu Hshzrh dvu’a thrl pa ‘dopal’. 

Ipun Jyvzif 
Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name is called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah